November 6, 2009
On Thursday, November 5th, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest global AIDS organization, which provides medical care and/or services to more than 120,000 individuals in 22 countries worldwide, opened a Men's Wellness Center at the new ‘AHF Blair Underwood Healthcare Center’ located in Washington D.C. Read More...
November 5, 2009
By: LISA LING and ARASH GHADISHAH
Performer who passed HIV to co-stars now advocates mandatory condom use in porn. Darren James once led a busy life as a porn star. "Sometimes it'd be 10 women in an orgy scene -- nonstop," he said, talking about his career at its busiest. "And you work from eight in the morning to maybe eight at night. And that's one scene. All these women. Nonstop." Read More...
November 4, 2009
AHF has worked in Ukraine since 2004, when it began a preceptorship training project funded by the Global Fund. In collaboration with Samara and Saratov Health Care Administrations and American International Health Alliance, AHF formed the Volga River Alliance Project. In November 2008, AHF established an outpatient clinic in Odessa, a seaport city with one of the highest HIV prevalence rates in Ukraine. The clinic currently cares for more than 500 clients.
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November 2, 2009
Recent Washington Post Articles Detail Widespread Mismanagement and Corruption in District of Columbia Health Department's HIV/AIDS Administration; Millions May Have Been Misspent and Remain Unaccounted For as the District Copes with Highest AIDS Rate in the Nation Read More...
October 30, 2009
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) today lauded President Barack Obama for lifting a 22 year-old ban prohibiting HIV-positive foreigners from traveling to the US. The US was one of only twelve countries with such a travel ban. Read More...
October 30, 2009
As part of an ambitious global effort to test several million people for HIV in observance of the Testing Millions World AIDS Day 2009 campaign, AHF/Cambodia CARES will launch its inaugural testing effort during the annual Water Festival, which marks the end of the rainy season and is the largest festival in the Cambodian calendar. Read More...
October 29, 2009
AIDS Healthcare Foundation will present a poster at this year’s U.S. Conference on AIDS in San Francisco this weekend—October 29-31. One Million Tests: 2008 World AIDS Day Global Campaign—Revamping the VCT Model to Streamlined Rapid Testing demonstrates the results of AHF’s large-scale global HIV testing campaign in which more than 1. 6 million people in 27 countries were tested for HIV in the months leading up to World AIDS Day 2008. Read More...
October 27, 2009
Партнерство между ФМП, Санкт-Петербургским Государственным Учреждением здравоохранения «Центр по профилактике и борьбе с инфекционными заболеваниями»; Региональной общественной организацией «СПИД, статистика, здоровье» и Санкт-Петербургским Государственным Учреждением здравоохранения поликлиникой № 109 обеспечит доступ к услугам тестирования и консультирования на ВИЧ, лечения и ухода при ВИЧ/СПИДе, включая антиретровирусную терапию, опираясь на подход, ориентированный на нужды пациента в новом отделении диспансеризации и лечения во Фрунзенском районе Санкт-Петербурга. Read More...
October 26, 2009
Late night television comic Jimmy Kimmel put a national spotlight on AHF’s campaign to require condoms to be used in all porn production when he used a news clip from the recent protest at the Downtown Los Angeles Marriott Hotel as a springboard for jokes in his monologue on the ABC Network’s ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live! show on Friday, October 23rd. Read More...
October 26, 2009
Saint-Petersburg Government Healthcare Institution’s Center for Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases; AIDS, Statistics, Health, a respected regional non-governmental organization (NGO); and Saint-Petersburg Government Healthcare Institution’s Policlinic N109 are honored to announce that they are forming an innovative new partnership to provide free HIV testing and prevention services and HIV/AIDS medical care in Saint-Petersburg, Russia’s second largest city. Medical care will include the provision of lifesaving antiretroviral treatment (ART) to people living with HIV/AIDS via a newly established outpatient HIV unit created by the partnership and located at the City Policlinic 109 in Frunzensky District, Saint-Petersburg. Read More...
